English
gluon
From glue + -on.
A compound of glue + -on
Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- ‘to stick, glue’
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Latin glūten
Late Latin glūs
Old French glu ‘glue, birdlime’
Middle English glew
English glue
The story
Coined by American physicist Murray Gell-Mann in 1962.
Today it means
noun A massless gauge boson that binds quarks together to form baryons, mesons and other hadrons and is associated with the strong nuclear force.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / gluon